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Design Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.8), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1460-6925Verify ISSN ↗1756-3062Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 28 / 697 | 96th | Q1 |
| Architecture | 48 / 210 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.8.
Design Journal is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 28 of 697) and Q1 in Architecture (rank 48 of 210), by CiteScore 2025.
Design Journal is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.317, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
Design Journal is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1460-6925 and its online ISSN is 1756-3062.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Design Journal has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Design Journal published 78 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 474. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (15.9%), United Kingdom (9.3%) and Italy (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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